Really Disney, Really??

So I read that Disney is not going to make anymore “princess” type movies.  I don’t remember where I read it, but I did.  They are going to focus more on the movies like “Prom” to appeal to more kids.  I am very, very disappointed in you Disney.  I love all the Disney movies from my childhood!  Beauty & The Beast, The Lion King, Aladin…I can go on and on.  I think there is so much out there that is forcing our kids to grow up too fast as it is, I don’t want my kids watching “Prom”.  Not only is the content not appropriate for most children that watch it, but do we really want our kids watching a movie that is telling them that prom is such a big deal?  I don’t.  News flash everyone….prom is not what is important about school!  I wish all the media would stop encouraging our kids to grow up so fast, it is just sad.  Don’t get me wrong, I love all the stupid reality shows like Real World and 16 and Pregnant.  But I am an adult (apparently), and I know what those people are doing on those shows is crazy and dumb, but all the young kids growing up don’t know that.  I was relying on Disney to provide entertainment for my kids when I need to get things done around the house, or to be honest, when I just want a little “quiet time”.  I guess I will have to fall back on the classics on DVD, or hope that Pixar keeps cranking out some goodies!

The mall is gross

So the title pretty much sums up this blog today.  I went to the mall yesterday to quick run a few errands.  Since having kids, I don’t really have the time to go hang out at the mall anymore, so needless to say other than running in and out of a store real quick, I haven’t really been to the mall on a weekend in probably about 3-4 years.  So I went with my husband and the girls yesterday, and if the mall represents the population of our country, I am truly scared.   Maybe I never paid attention before and it has always been gross, but otherwise somewhere along the line I think the mall has gotten rather trashy, and the people that are there do not help that cause.  There are kids running around without any supervision that look like they should still be in diapers, the girls are all dressing like they are going to stand on a street corner downtown, and there are a ton of people up by the food court scarfing down crazy amounts of unhealthy foods.  Not to mention, I thought this economy was bad?  What are all these people doing spending money at the mall?  It didn’t look like anyone was having any financial troubles with the amount of bags the masses were carrying around.  To sum this up…if this is an accurate representation of the people and future generations of our country, we are in trouble and maybe I should just move now.  Oh, and I am also going to shop online instead.

I blame their father

So, I think I am the only one who has this problem…my kids don’t sleep.  When Kenna was a baby, we blamed it on her colic, then on her alertness, and then on her smartness (“She is just too into everything, too smart to waste her time sleeping”).  When she took 2-3 naps, they were always really short, and she dropped those to the one per day.  Everyone told me, “oh, now that she is down to one nap, it will be like a 2-3 hour one”..Nope!  The little stinker only took like one 1 hour nap a day.  Ok, fine, so this one just isn’t a sleeper.  Well now with Brinley, I was hoping I would have my little sleeper, you know, the one that just wants to cuddle for an hour in the morning to wake up.  But I fear that is not the case.  She is already cutting all her naps short, going to bed late, and waking up talking at 4:30-5am ready to be up for the day.  Are you kidding me???  Both of them??  I like sleep, I am not a morning person.  I like to lay around in my PJ’s and drink coffee for a good hour in the morning, you know, ease into my day.  Not the rest of my family.  This is where I blame their father.  He brags about not needing much sleep.  He will get up and go exercise at 4am after getting 4 hours of sleep and will be fine.  He wakes up full of energy and ready to start the day, he is definitely a morning person.  This is why my girls turned out the way they did…it’s got “DAD” written all over it.  I guess if it has to be this way, at least they all wake up happy, laughing, and talkative!  I can take that over the sound of an alarm clock.

Funny Things My Daughter Says & Does

After writing a blog a few posts back about the funny stuff my daughter says, I just started writing down some of my favorite things that she has said or done.  Hopefully you find it funny too, or maybe its just because I think she's extra cute :)  (for Future reference, Kenna is my older daughter, & Brinley is my younger).

*”Mom, Brinley is giving me attitude!”  (Brinley was staring at her in the car).

*”That lady just wanted to meet me.” (Some lady at the chiropractor was trying to talk to her).

*”Where’s Daddy?”  (He is at work, Kenna), “oh, poor Daddy.” –This was when she was like 1 ½ years old…so observant J

*”Mom, I don’t like cranberries in my oatmeal, we can just go ahead and get rid of those.”

*(I was doing “so big” with Brinley) “Mom, Brinley is not so big, she is very little, I think you are wrong.”

*She took my sister’s credit card off the counter and put it in my purse and said “Cash Money” J

*”Mom, that is despectable”  (Do you mean despicable, Kenna?) “No, I mean despectable”.  Apparently she is making up her own words now.

* After I barely bumped into Kenna (she didn’t even cry or anything), she tells me “Mom, you can give it one kiss, then I need an ice pack, and I think a cookie would probably make me feel better.”

*Me: “I just want to eat Brinley up, she is so cute”

   Kenna: “I bet she tastes like macaroni & cheese”

   Me: “oh, really, then what do you taste like?”

   Kenna: “probably a hot potato”

   Me: “Kenna, stop trying to lick your sister, she doesn’t really taste like macaroni and cheese”

Oh Wow

So I was watching a commercial for a new show coming out on Animal Planet, its called Hillbilly Handfishin’.   Yes, Hillbilly Handfishin’, and it is exactly what you think it is.  A bunch of people (hillbillies) playing around in dirty, nasty looking creeks catching fish with their bare hands.  You would think it would be a bunch of gross old men, but in the commercial I saw, they had a few younger women in the water too.  I don’t get it.  The water looks gross, fish are gross, and it seems like you are making fishing a much harder task than it needs to be.  Why would you not want to sit on a nice clean and dry boat and wait for a dumb fish to catch your bait?  Oh wait, I can get filthy dirty, swim around in nasty water, and grab around like a crazy person trying to catch a fish with my bare hands, please let’s choose the second option.  Gross!  Not to mention, it seems like more often than not, you are not actually going to get the fish with your hands, pretty sure they can move quicker than us.  I want to know who does this…and who at Animal Planet thought “Hmmm…hillbillies catching fish with their bare hands…I’m going to make a TV series out of it!”  So yes, I will probably end up watching at least 1 episode.

*http://animal.discovery.com/tv/hillbilly-handfishin/

The lights of my life

Some days with my girls are a challenge, but at least every day is new and exciting.  They keep me on my toes and show me things in life that I would otherwise be too busy to notice.  These instances make everything worth it, even the really challenging days.  The other day I was on the phone with my husband, and my daughter was cheering “Go, Daddy, Go” in the background.  Like a good mom, I ignored it until I got off the phone.  J  After I got off she said “Mom, I was cheering Go, Daddy, Go for Daddy because he is doing an awesome job at work”.  I immediately felt bad for ignoring her and not letting her “cheer” for her Dad on the phone.  I wish I could think as matter of factly as my daughter does.  She just says it how it is with everything.  She says so many funny/interesting/smart things to me on a daily basis (ohh…potential blog topic later!).  I like to think that she is a genius, but I will just settle for her being keenly aware of everything around her and being able to report these findings in such an entertaining matter and making me smile everyday!

I'm in love

I am in love with a website called www.zulily.com.  It is one of those deal of the day sites, but it has a lot of different items each day.  Check it out.  Anyways, I know that I am addicted because as soon as 9 am rolls around, I have to get on and see if they have anything good.  It’s never anything I need, and sometimes it is not even good deals, but they have such cute stuff.  It’s mostly baby items, kids’ clothes, or house wares, but most of it is stuff I’ve never heard of.  I like to dress my girls in cute clothes and not the same ones that are out there everywhere, and not in the aforementioned risky clothes at the local stores.  So whenever I find cute clothes on the site, I always feel like I need to get them, even if the girls don’t need any new clothes.  I really need to stop, and not just because it costs money, but because my daughter’s closet bar is literally starting to bend in the middle from the weight of their clothes.  Which I think does say a lot, since they are little and their tiny outfits don’t weigh all that much.  So I guess I will stop, but not because I want to, but because my husband will probably refuse to put up a new closet bar if this one breaks since he already told me to stop putting so many clothes in there J  (at least until fall clothes come out, she needs clothes for school of course!)